Only 70 years ago! The Jews were taken to slaughter like sheep.

60 years ago! We had no country. No army.

Seven Arab countries declared war on the small Jewish state, only a few hours after its creation!

We were only 650 Jews against the rest of the Arab world! NO IDF (Israeli Defense Army). No powerful air force, only brave people with nowhere to go.

Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, all attacked at the same time.

The country that the United Nations gave us was a 65% desert. The country was in the middle of nowhere.

35 years ago! We fought against three of the most powerful armies in the Middle East, and we swept them in six days.

We fought against various coalitions of Arab countries, which had modern armies and many Soviet weapons, and we have always defeated them!

Today we have:
· A country
· An army
· A powerful air force
· A state-of-the-art economy, which exports millions of dollars
· Intel – Microsoft – IBM develops products at home
· Our doctors receive awards for medical research

We make the desert bloom, and sell oranges, flowers and vegetables all over the world.

Israel sent its own satellites into space! Three satellites at the same time!

We are proud to be in the same rank as:
· The United States, which has 250 million inhabitants
· Russia, which has 200 million inhabitants
· China, which has 1.3 billion inhabitants
· Europe – France, Great Britain, Germany – with 350 million inhabitants

The only countries in the world to send objects into space! Israel is now part of the family of the nuclear powers, with the United States, Russia, China, India, France and Britain.

We have never officially admitted it, but everyone knows it and says that only 60 years ago we were led, ashamed and hopeless, to slaughter!

We have extirpés the smoking ruins of Europe; we have won our wars here with less than nothing. We built our little “Empire” from nothing.

Passover was celebrated. Let’s not forget what this is about.

> We survived Pharaoh
> We survived the Greeks
> We survived the Romans
> We survived the Inquisition in Spain
> We have the pogroms in Russia
> We survived Hitler
> We survived the Germans
> We survived the Holocaust
> We survived the armies of seven Arab countries
> We survived Saddam
> We will survive the enemies present.

Think of any time in human history! Think about it! To the Jewish people, the situation has never been better! So let’s face the world.

Remember: all nations or cultures that once tried to destroy us no longer exist today – while we still live!

· Egypt?
· The Greeks?
· Alexander of Macedonia?
· The Romans? (Does anyone still speak Latin these days?)
· The Third Reich?

And look at us:
> The Bible Nation
> The slaves of Egypt

We are still here.

And we speak the same language! Then, and now! The Arabs don’t know yet, but they will learn that there is a God. As long as we keep our identity, we are forever.

So forgive us:
* For not worrying.
* Not crying.
* Not being afraid.

Things are fine here. They could certainly get better.

However, do not believe the media, they don’t tell you parties continue to take place, people continue to live, people keep coming out, people continue to see friends.

Yes, our morale is low. So what? Only because we mourn our deaths, while others rejoice in the blood shed. That is why we will win, in the end.

1. I will lift up my eyes to the hills – from whence comes my help?

2. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and the earth.

3. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.

4. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.

6. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

7. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.

8. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. (Psalm 121)

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